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Karen Rose Smith's Bio

Award-winning author Karen Rose Smith was born in Pennsylvania. Although she was an only child, she remembers the bonds of an extended family. She and her parents lived with her grandfather and aunt until she was five, when her parents built a house next door. Since her father came from a family of ten and her mother from a family of seven, there were always aunts, uncles and cousins visiting on weekends. Family is a strong theme in her books and she suspects her childhood memories are the reason.

When Karen reached her teenage years, music became as important to her as reading. The Beatles were her favorite group, but she and her cousin took their first sojourn into writing by collaborating on a script for The Monkees television program. They sent that script to every concert venue where the group appeared that summer!

In college, Karen began writing poetry and also met her husband-to-be. They both began married life as teachers, but when their son was born, Karen decided to try her hand at a home-decorating business.

She returned to teaching for a while, but changes in her life led her to write romance fiction. Now she writes romances and mysteries full-time. She has sold 82 novels since 1991. A two-time winner of New Jersey's Golden Leaf Award in Short Contemporary Romance, Karen also received the Colorado Romance Writers Award Of Excellence for Short Contemporary, as well as the Phoenix Desert Rose Chapter's Golden Quill for Traditional Romance. She has also been honored with Cataromance.com's award for Best Special Edition. Her romances have made the USA TODAY list, the Borders Group Bestseller list for Series Romance and the Amazon Contemporary Romance Bestseller list.

Presently, she is hard at work on a three-book series for Harlequin Special Edition, as well as a three-book mystery series for Kensington.

Karen has been married to her college sweetheart since 1971, and she believes in the power of love and commitment. She envisions herself writing relationship novels, both romance and mystery, for a long time to come! Readers can email Karen through her website. She posts excerpts and info about upcoming titles there. They can also follow her on Twitter and on Facebook.